The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection!
Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion—a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat.
The classic account of the abandonment of American POWs in Vietnam by the US government – Kiss the Boys Goodbye has become a classic on the subject of American policy on the rescue of and negotiation for American prisoners.
